Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...totally irresponsible, then, for all puerilities and crudities that may ever be found in that [the literary] department. The articles therein published are merely the expressions of individual opinions, and so long as they are not indecent or inappropriate, we cannot very well exclude them. If there were as many good articles handed in as we could use, that would please us much indeed, for it would push the poor ones out. Otherwise we cannot easily get rid of them. So, if lower classmen are left to do the work, and in doing it, attack subjects which are as much...
...CANNOT hear thee, for the winds are moaning...
...cannot hear thee, for the waves are high...
...cannot hear thee, for the good ship, groaning...
...life. After six or eight hours of sustained intellectual effort, an hour or two in the course of a week spent in dancing, or a half-hour with a party of fellow-students over an open grate with a pipe of Lone Jack or a mug of beer, cannot be productive of such lugubrious results as theorists imagine. The very fact that to hold a scholarship requires extraordinary abstinence, self-control, and mental strength, disproves the much-harped-upon liability to excess in matters of self-gratification...